Remote Technical Artist Job in UK Hypersonic Laboratories

Who you are

• Experience working as a Technical Artist in the games industry
• Proven track record of contributing high quality technical art work to games (examples greatly preferred)
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 essential
• Experience with C++, Unreal Shaders and Unreal Blueprints in an AAA game creation context
• General experience across all areas of game art creation: 3D and 2D art, animations, UI and open world environments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, written and verbal
• Enjoys working in remote teams and thrives in an environment where everyone works flexibly online

Desirables

• Experience optimizing open world, modern-setting AAA games
• Understanding of games-as-platforms, modding, “UGC” platforms like Roblox or Fortnite UEFN
• Live Ops and/or Platform experience
• Understanding of GTA Roleplay or equivalent servers (FiveM)

What the job involves

• Manage the HELIX art pipeline, ensuring assets can be created and integrated fast and easily
• Create guidelines and benchmarking tests to ensure assets on HELIX are correctly made and performant
• Optimize assets for better performance, evaluating tradeoffs between quality and game performance
• Work with artists and programmers to create performant shaders and visual effects that look great and can be used and modified liberally by our creator community
• Ensure our large-scale open world environments perform well across all target platforms